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Cuba: A Protest Anticipated by Art

Cuba: A Protest Anticipated by Art

The protests that took place on July 11 in Cuba were neither convened by artists nor led by intellectuals nor conceived by a laboratory of aesthetic drives. They were popular demonstrations that evinced an extreme situation marked by political immobility, economic inefficacy, the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, growing

Radical Imaginations: Decolonizing Art Institutions Through Practical Actions in the post-COVID Landscape

Radical Imaginations: Decolonizing Art Institutions Through Practical Actions in the post-COVID Landscape

The museum is in crisis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprising centered around Black Lives Matter, conversations around art institutions have jumped to the forefront of calls for decolonization. Yet one major question remains: What will a decolonized museum look like, especially now? Since beginning this

One Good Thing About Music

One Good Thing About Music

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock episode Steve McQueen’s Small Axe has been widely acclaimed by both critics and viewers. The five-part film series takes its name from an African proverb popularised by a Bob Marley and the Wailers song: “If you are the big tree, we are the small

Coup 53: A Re-Enactment of the British and American Role in the Overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh

Coup 53: A Re-Enactment of the British and American Role in the Overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh

“Coup 53”, a documentary by Taghi Amirani (Amirani Media, 2019), is an extensive visual account of the removal from power of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in the 19 August 1953 Coup, a historical event that continues to reverberate as a theme within Iranian society. The Anglo-American-directed operation which unseated